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Malicious Chrome extension is next to impossible to manually remove
Proving once again that Google Chrome extensions are the Achilles heel of what's arguably the Internet's most secure browser, a researcher has...
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Uber engineer Levandowski, accused of massive theft from Google, has been fired
The Uber engineer at the center of the company's litigation with Waymo, Anthony Levandowski, has been fired. Levandowski's termination was ...
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“Genericide” legal assault to nullify the Google trademark fails
What do a teleprompter, thermos, hoover, aspirin, and videotape have in common? They were once trademarked but lost their legally protected status bec...
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Google phishing attack was foretold by researchers—and it may have used their code
The "Google Docs" phishing attack that wormed its way through thousands of e-mail inboxes earlier this week exploited a threat tha...
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Report: Google will add an ad blocker to all versions of Chrome Web browser
The Wall Street Journal just dropped a shocker of a report: Google, the biggest Web advertising company in the world, is planning to build an ad ...
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Google expands automatic “fact check” insertion into search results
After launching a preliminary test in October, Google has officially rolled out an automatic fact check tag program on its search ...
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Google Chrome restricts background tabs to 1% CPU, prolonging battery life
Rejoice, Chrome users! With Chrome 57, released this week, your laptop might soon get more than three hours of battery life when you have multipl...
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Google is buying data science community Kaggle
Google's latest acquisition appears to involve data scientists and machine learning contests. According to TechCrunch sources, the ...
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Google's Tensor Processing Unit could advance Moore's Law 7 years into the future
Forget the CPU, GPU, and FPGA, Google says its Tensor Processing Unit, or TPU, advances machine learning capability by a factor of three generations. ...
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Sony challenges Google Glass with its new 'Smart EyeGlass'
Sony’s prototype smartglasses use a built-in projector to display text and images in both eyes, and includes cooking and maps apps Sony is de...
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Google settles with the government for $19 million over in-app purchases
Don't think that Apple and Amazon are the only ones currently in the FTC's crosshairs over their in-app purchasing policies. But whi...
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Amazon's Twitch buy made possible by Google antitrust concerns
Amazon's bid to acquire game-streaming service Twitch for nearly $1 billion was made possible by Google's fears of an antitrust complaint, acc...
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Google Pulls April Fools’ Prank After Backlash
By Jack Nicas Some people aren’t laughing at one of Google’s latest April Fools’ Day pranks. The Alphabet unit inser...
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